Stardock: Roughly 85% of Demigod players are pirates

Following the games release on Monday Tuesday, about 120,000 people attempted to play Gas Powered Games PC title, Demigod, online. However, only 15% of those connections were genuine purchasers, while the remaining 85%, totaling in at about 102,000 players, are playing via pirated software, according to Stardock CEO Brad Wardell. Although pirates arent actually able to partake in the multiplayer portion of the game, the opening version of Demigod pinged a server for updates upon booting  meaning that every player with an established Internet connection hit the server.

Wardell went on to say that Stardock has spent a lot of time trying to sift out the warez users from the legitimate ones, but that it would require a lot of surgery to actually break them. He feels, though, that it is a lose-lose situation because its not like there will be an accompanying ha ha pirate message to those being cut off from the game  thus resulting in people simply labeling the game buggy.

Being that the company is heavily opposed to invasive DRM, as with other Stardock releases, Demigod shipped without any on-disc copy protection.